I've read that when running a local DNS server, it is a good idea to disable the caching DNS clients at the workstations that will be using that DNS server. (See Simple DNS Plus, for ...

Security experts have disclosed today details about seven vulnerabilities impacting a popular DNS software package that is commonly deployed in networking equipment, such as routers and access points.

Researchers from Tsinghua University and the University of California have identified a new method that can be used to conduct DNS cache poisoning attacks. The new discovery revives a 2008 bug that ...

Few recent Internet threats have made such a big impact as security researcher Dan Kaminsky's discovery, in 2008, of fundamental flaws in the Domain Name System (DNS) protocol that can be used by ...

The short answer is being paranoid about tackling a known vulnerability. It's 2001, and Daniel J. Bernstein (DJB), author of the then popular djbdns security-aware DNS implementation, is applying ...

Your ISP configures a DNS server, or you can manually set it on your router or PC if you are using the public DNS such as Cloudflare, Google, and others. Since the ...

Microsoft patched three memory corruption vulnerabilities in the Windows DNS client that could be abused by a man-in-the-middle attacker to run arbitrary code. Three critical Windows DNS client ...

The use of hyperscalers and their public cloud services in particular means that IP-based sets of rules only make limited sense. At the same time, DNS resolvers are distributed throughout the system ...